Shakespeare for the wiser sort: Solving Shakespeare's riddles in The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, King John, 1-2 Henry IV, The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Othello, Macbeth, and CymbelineManchester University Press, 30 de jul. de 2018 - 208 páginas William Shakespeare’s plays are riddled with passages, scenes and sudden plot twists which baffle and confound the most devoted playgoer and the most attentive commentator. Why, for example, didn’t Hamlet succeed to the throne of Denmark at the instant of his father’s death? (It’s not because the Danish throne was elective.) Why does Chorus in Romeo and Juliet promise his audience ‘two houres trafficke of our stage’ when the play obviously runs almost three hours? How is it that Old Hamlet sent his son to school in (Protestant) Wittenberg but his Ghost was sent to (Catholic) Purgatory? and is there cause-and-effect here? How can Lancelot Gobbo be correct (and he is) when he claims Black Monday (the day after Easter) and Ash Wednesday (the 41st day before Easter) once fell on the same day? And what is a ‘dram of eale’? This engaging and lucid book solves these tantalizing riddles and many others. |
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... audience 1 2 'Doubt thou the starres are fire': the new philosophy in Hamlet 8 3 'The time is out of joint': Queen Elizabeth's calendar muddle 17 4 Shakespeare's time-riddles in Romeo and Juliet solved 36 5 'two and fortie houres': did ...
... audience 1 2 'Doubt thou the starres are fire': the new philosophy in Hamlet 8 3 'The time is out of joint': Queen Elizabeth's calendar muddle 17 4 Shakespeare's time-riddles in Romeo and Juliet solved 36 5 'two and fortie houres': did ...
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... audience, but simultaneously for that stratum of cognoscenti whom Gabriel Harvey dubbed 'the wiser sort.' And that ... audiences: one, the great mass of entertainment-seeking playgoers; the other, a wiser sort who were themselves ...
... audience, but simultaneously for that stratum of cognoscenti whom Gabriel Harvey dubbed 'the wiser sort.' And that ... audiences: one, the great mass of entertainment-seeking playgoers; the other, a wiser sort who were themselves ...
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... the opening of the first Bankside Globe and the world première of Shakespeare's Roman tragedy. I think he would have been pleased; my David and Tully were. ONE 'to please the wiser sort': Shakespeare's other (smarter) audience Preface xv.
... the opening of the first Bankside Globe and the world première of Shakespeare's Roman tragedy. I think he would have been pleased; my David and Tully were. ONE 'to please the wiser sort': Shakespeare's other (smarter) audience Preface xv.
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... audience. John Hemminges and Henry Condell could be confident their splendid folio of William Shakespeare's works would encounter a great variety of readers. The thirty-five plays they assembled and published in 1623 had entertained ...
... audience. John Hemminges and Henry Condell could be confident their splendid folio of William Shakespeare's works would encounter a great variety of readers. The thirty-five plays they assembled and published in 1623 had entertained ...
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... audience 'two houres trafficke of our stage' when anyone can see Romeo and Juliet runs almost three hours? Why does Othello seem to unfold in double-time? What did Cicero say as he watched Caesar swoon? and why won't Casca dare repeat ...
... audience 'two houres trafficke of our stage' when anyone can see Romeo and Juliet runs almost three hours? Why does Othello seem to unfold in double-time? What did Cicero say as he watched Caesar swoon? and why won't Casca dare repeat ...
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Shakespeares timeriddles in Romeo and Juliet solved | 36 |
Did Shakespeare know Bandello? | 55 |
Shakespeare rewrites the Holy Ghost | 77 |
The double time crux in Othello solved | 106 |
The men behind the masks of Falstaff Faulconbridge Lamord and Hamlet | 127 |
Appendix | 166 |
Bibliography | 174 |
Index | 187 |
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